Piping Buttercream Borders

Turn your next creation into a timeless masterpiece with everyone's favorite icing: Buttercream! With Roland Winbeckler, the father of American cake decorating, you’ll make perfect decorating icing, roll your own parchment piping bags and even tint the icing right in the bag! Start with simple shells, swags and scrolls before diving into rustic rosettes, flawless filigree and dramatic drop strings. Also included is a buttercream technique for the hottest thing in cake these days: ombré ruffles. Roland will show you how to cultivate your skills on a practice board before heading to the turntable.

Lesson 8. Piping Drop Strings

"Not only does Roland give great guidance but he makes you believe there's nothing you can't do with buttercream. A dedicated fondant user, I am now completely excited about buttercream."
- SensationalCelCanal Winchester, OH

Lesson 8. Piping Drop Strings

Roland Winbeckler, Instructor of Piping Buttercream Borders

Roland Winbeckler is the father of the American cake decorating movement, having begun his career in 1971. Well-known for his buttercream piping skills, from flowers, to borders, to intricate figures, he helped pioneer such decorating standards as sculpted cakes.